Recent Study: Sleep Helps Avoid Common Cold
A recent study led by Sheldon Cohen, PhD,1 at Carnegie Mellon University found that people who get fewer than seven hours of sleep a night are almost three times as likely to develop cold symptoms as people who sleep for eight or more hours. The percentage of time in bed spent asleep, which is called sleep efficiency, is important as well. People with a sleep efficiency of 85 percent or less are five times as likely to develop cold symptoms as those with higher efficiency.
1- Sheldon Cohen, PhD, is Robert E. Doherty professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and leader of a study of 153 people, published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
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